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Proposed law allows Saudi women to argue court cases
Saudi Arabia is planning to issue a law that would allow female lawyers to argue family law court cases, BBC News reported Sunday (February 21st). The law is part of King Abdullah's plan to modernize the judicial system. It will also allow women to complete some legal procedures without a witness, such as notarizing documents. Female lawyers are relegated to segregated offices in the government and private sector where they do not mix with men. If the law is passed, women would be able to represent other women in marriage, divorce, custody and other family cases. All of Saudi Arabia's judges are men.
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Backward religious scholars need to tolerate the presence of women in their society and recognize the female role in its establishment. Women are not things, doomed to remain at home. They have to look at the achievements made by women in the Gulf countries, who have enjoyed their freedom after they had long suffered from the same conditions as the Saudi women. They have to admit reality. “Sheikhs” must reverse this decision and grant women in Saudi Arabia more freedom to take up activities, like driving cars and becoming a government member.
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